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Grace is on page 21 of 896

‘The scaffold is a sort of monster created by the judge and the workman, a spectre which seems to live with a kind of unspeakable life, drawn from all the death which it has wrought.’

— Jan 26, 2026 06:36PM

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Grace is on page 37 of 896

“Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, this is recognised: that the human race has been harshly treated, but that it has advanced” (32).

— Jan 27, 2026 07:02PM

Grace is on page 22 of 896

‘He sought to […] transform the grief which looks down into the grave by showing it the grief which looks up to the stars.’

— Jan 26, 2026 06:43PM

Grace is on page 16 of 896

‘We do not claim that the portrait which we present here is plausible; we say only that it resembles him.’

— Jan 19, 2026 06:58PM

Grace is on page 16 of 896

‘Down with the pope! (Relations with Rome were becoming tense.)

— Jan 19, 2026 06:57PM

Grace is on page 13 of 896

i am going to read this book this year (very slowly) happy 2026 to my fellow les mis heads out there